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18. IX. 1918

Thebearer, Comrade Mikhail NikolayevichSanayev,[1]Chairman of the Sergach Uyezd Party Committee (and
member of the E.C.), has very interesting things to tell about
the class struggle in the countryside and the Poor Peasants’
Committees.

Itis extremely important that suchfactualmaterial
from the local areas should appear in the newspaper (there
is far too much of “generalities”). Will you please take
down what the comrade says and publish it.

Withcomradely greetings,Lenin

[1]Evidentlya slip of the pen: the person concerned was Mikhail
Ivanovich Sanayev.—Ed.